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Four BC History Department faculty members have received prestigious yearlong research fellowships for 2014-15, including Professor Prasannan Parthasarathi, who will be a fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute.

In this Harvard Magazine story, Class Marshal Ginny Fahs also advises freshmen to take advantage of the many stimulating events happening on campus nearly every day, such as the lectures offered by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Human beings expend vast amounts of energy and attention caring for the dead. Thomas W. Laqueur of the University of California, Berkeley, has spent a lot of time thinking about why and shares his work at a Radcliffe Institute lecture.

"Health is rarely only about health alone," said Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, as she opened a two-day conference titled "Who Decides? Gender, Medicine, and the Public Health."